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Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs (www.eurogamer.net)

Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles (www.techspot.com)

Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH (lists.mindrot.org)

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)

I’m a software engineer and I love actual technology, but I think we have reached the peak of mt. stupid

Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)

So it continues.

OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)

Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...

Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)

Broadcom ditches most of VMware's Cloud Service Providers (www.theregister.com)

Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat (www.firstpost.com)

A new law, signed by Republican Governor Mike DeWine in July, is considered as a way to safeguard children’s mental health, citing concerns about the intentionally addictive nature of social media.

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....

TikTok restricts tool used by researchers - and its critics - to assess content on its platform (apnews.com)

Among others, the social media company, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has removed certain hashtags from the Creative Center that some online researchers had stored for analysis. They include topics that would be seen as controversial to the Chinese government – such as “UyghurGenocide” and...

SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES (www.sagaftra.org)

this agreement is causing a great deal of distaste in VA spaces this week, perhaps best exemplified by this tweet which asserts that the deal was not sent to membership. as far as i can tell through the grapevine a lot of VAs concur that this was foist upon them suddenly and they were given no chance to vote on it or similar,...

HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (Elon Musk, Twitter) (www.vice.com)

VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year (www.volkswagen-newsroom.com)

I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.

U.S. Lawmakers Push to Consider Trade Limits With A.I. Company in the United Arab Emirates Tied to China (www.nytimes.com)

Unpaywalled link: web.archive.org/web/…/ai-china-uae-g42.html...

Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search (beehaw.org)

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history!...

AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email (9to5mac.com)

Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network (beehaw.org)

Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...

The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)

The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring...

First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers (www.newscientist.com)

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (www.theverge.com)

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